Cool Down Hot
Flashes
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By Michele Verhoosky, CHP
Graduate, American School of Hypnosis
Menopause is a natural progression in the natural order of things.
The hot flash (or flush) is infamous as a classic symptom of
menopause. When estrogen drops because of menopause the brain gets
the “wrong message” and thinks that the body is too hot, creating
measures such as sweating and heat loss (through the skin) to try to
cool down the inside of the body.
However, the mind also has a major influence over the body and can
be hypnotically trained to cool down hot flashes. You have
the ability to use your thoughts and imagination to literally
reprogram your body’s responses. What the mind can conceive the body
can achieve. Let me repeat that so it is perfectly clear: your
powerful, strong subconscious mind can be hypnotically trained to
cool down hot flashes and night sweats. What the mind can conceive
the body can achieve.
I would
like you to continue using your imagination now. I’d like you to
picture yourself walking on a beautiful beach…the sugary sand is
soft and smooth beneath your feet, and a cool salt-tang breeze blows
gently through your hair… The sky is a beautiful sun-washed
blue...the sand sugary white…the water a beautiful jeweled blend of
turquoise, emerald, and amethyst while golden sunlight sparkles like
diamonds on the rippling waves as they gently lap the shore…You
breathe in the fresh, clean air and feel your shoulders relax, your
spirits soar, and all cares and burdens just fall away—it’s a
picture perfect day on an absolutely beautiful beach, and there’s no
place else you’d rather be…
Just up
ahead you notice a striped beach chair close to the water’s edge,
and realize that it’s a chair meant just for you…With a smile and a
soft sigh of utmost contentment you let yourself sink down into that
striped beach chair…and find that it’s the most comfortable
chair you’ve ever sat it…perfectly molding itself to your
body…letting you just sit back and completely relax…You feel the
warm golden sunlight gently touch the crown of your head…a soft,
loving touch…and you feel yourself starting to relax even more
deeply, all your cares just melting away…You dip your feet into the
cool, clear ocean water, letting the water lap gently over
your toes, your instep, your ankles…like the most wonderful massage
in the world…and you feel tension draining away, right through the
soles of your feet…You feel so cool, relaxed, refreshed…so very
comfortable… this is YOUR PERFECT PLACE…
You sit
back and drink it all in…commit all the details of YOUR PERFECT
PLACE to memory, fixing it clear in your mind…touching your right
thumb to your right index finger as if to seal every detail of YOUR
PERFECT PLACE into the very fiber of your being… For you
intuitively sense that YOUR PERFECT PLACE is the place you know you
will want to return to…to relax, to meditate, to heal, refresh and
rejuvenate yourself…You close your eyes and once again touch your
right thumb to your right index finger… and you find that by
touching your right thumb and right index finger together, you are
instantly transported to YOUR PERFECT PLACE… You can see
the beautiful bejeweled ocean…you can feel the cool, clear
water lapping your feet…you can touch the soft, sugary
sand…you can hear the waves gently rolling in…you can
smell the clean, fresh air—all the details of YOUR PERFECT PLACE
are perfectly preserved, perfectly presented the moment you close
your eyes and touch your right thumb to your right index
finger…Touching your right thumb to your index finger instantly
transports you back to your perfect place…And any time you find a
need or desire to escape to someplace safe and enjoyable, anytime
you would like to return here, all you need to do is take a deep
breath and simply touch your right thumb to your right index finger
and your mind will instantly take you back to this wonderful
place, YOUR PERFECT PLACE.
So,
sitting in your striped beach chair in YOUR PERFECT PLACE you
welcome the warm light gently touching the crown of your
head…because even though the light is warm, the water lapping over
your feet is COOL, CLEAR, REFRESHING, and you feel totally
refreshed and relaxed…And as you bask in your special beach chair,
you realize that this is a very special light touching you,
surrounding you. This is powerful HEALING LIGHT connected with the
light above and all around you…Visualize this light entering your
body at the top of your head and slowly moving down your body,
glowing beautifully from within…You choose the color or colors… And
it flows into your brain, your nervous system…gently calming and
balancing…returning you to health… It flows down beneath the deep
bones and muscles of your face…softening your forehead, the tiny
muscles around your eyes, your tongue, teeth and jaw…everything
relaxes…
And the
light flows over your neck and shoulders, warming and massaging all
the muscles there…This area stores a great deal of anxiety, a great
deal of tension. People with headaches from neck pain carry a great
deal of tension in their necks…or people who walk around with the
weight of their world on their shoulders have tightness and tension
in these muscles…but you feel that wonderful, warm healing light
relax these muscles completely… And you bask in the light, your feet
resting in the COOL, CLEAR water…leaving you feeling so comfortable,
so relaxed, so restored and refreshed…
You
feel your arms, your wrists, your hands, even your fingers become so
relaxed, the healing light gently massaging, leaving all your
muscles warm and loose, while the beautiful clear water lapping your
feet leaves you cool and refreshed…The light flows down your torso,
and you find your breathing becoming deeper, freer, easier…down,
down, relaxing the muscles of your stomach…your lower abdomen,
cleansing and healing, balancing all your internal organs…
And
finally, the light works it way over your hips…and you feel your
lower back relax…And the light is flowing down your legs now…feel
your knees soften and relax…your calves soften and relax…feel that
warm, soothing light energy flow down to your feet now… Accept this
healing light energy as it fills your body…healing it, protecting
it, loving every inch of your being as it reclaims your
body…restoring it to health, balance, well-being… Immerse yourself
totally in this moment…in this sensation….You have allowed healing
light to completely cleanse you from within…dispelling all dis-ease,
all dis-stress, all dysfunction…And even though healing warmth is
now suffusing you from the crown of your head to the soles of your
feet, you REMAIN COOL, RELAXED, UTTERLY CALM & COMFORTABLE…
From
now on, anytime you start to feel any symptoms of a hot-flash or
night sweat…or any time you even start to THINK about a
hot-flash or night sweat…you will immediately close your eyes, take
a deep breath, and as you exhale touch your right thumb to your
right index finger…and you will instantly be transported back
to YOUR PERFECT PLACE. Any warmth you feel is instantly
transformed into healing light energy. This healing light
energy will instantly heal, cleanse, restore and balance you
from within…while the sensation of the cool, clear ocean water
washing over your feet will instantly cool and refresh you.
The moment you touch your right thumb and index finger together you
instantly become cool, relaxed, utterly calm and
comfortable. For what the mind can conceive the body can achieve.
Let’s take a moment right now and do just that…Take a deep
breath…and as you exhale touch your right thumb to your index finger
and you are instantly transported back to YOUR PERFECT PLACE…
Be there… Take a moment to just completely immerse yourself in all
the wonderful details and sensations of YOUR PERFECT PLACE… And
once you have that image clear in your mind, nod your head “yes,”
and we will continue…Take a moment now and….GOOD!
From
now on, starting this very moment, you feel good. You feel
refreshed, relaxed, rebalanced. You are loved. You have reclaimed
your life. You have reclaimed your mind, body, and spirit. From
this point on you will make positive decisions that involve the
well-being of your mind, body and spirit. You live a life of
health. You put that healthy outlook into practice every day of
your long, healthy, happy life.
I am
going to bring you out of hypnosis now by counting to 5, and as I
say each number you will feel more and more healthy, cool, calm,
relaxed and whole.
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You are slowly coming back to the
here and now, feeling relaxed, cool, calm, peaceful.
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Feeling overjoyed with health and
vitality
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Your mind is clear and alert,
your body balanced, restored
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Your eyes are starting to open
and you feel great…And…
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Eyes wide open, alert and feeling
wonderful…Welcome back.
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